bank of america, highest close since april. jpmorgan also good. simon, you think the sandy play would be over, but no. trex, those waterproofing products -- >> you got to wonder if they're covering shorts in advance of the employment report perhaps, bob. >> they're buying on sandy pretty heavy on these stocks. >> >>ty, more later, back to you. >>> a lot of economic data out today. some of it supposed to have come out earlier in the week, was delayed. shows an economy building momentum. that is at least until sandy came. steve leisman here. steve, is sandy going to slam the brakes on this slightly upward arc we're seeing in the economy? >> it is definitely going to have an impact on the economy. today we got a read on the economy ahead of sandy giving us really a baseline. that baseline was a little bit better than economists originally thought. at almost every count. perhaps the miss here -- what a nice graphic they made. perhaps the miss there was because they don't know how to estimate the new methodology. but that was better than expected. clai